Command Arguments

integer

A positive or negative whole number. For example:

2 ‑5 25

value

A signed number with or without a decimal point. For example:

2.5 5 ‑3.8

letter

A single alphabetic character

word

A sequence of up to four letters, for example, GATE WN P (may be longer in some cases, but only the first four characters are significant).

text

A string of alphanumeric or symbol characters, which may include spaces, enclosed between single closing quotation marks or | characters. This is normally used to add descriptive material to an appropriate attribute.

For example: DUTY ’Low Pressure’

space

The space bar (not usually specified unless of special significance)

name

A sequence of characters preceded by a slash/and representing an Outfitting Element name.

For example:

/BRANCH7 /305.ABC /P4/NOZ

Note: A name should always be followed by a space (unless at the end of a line).

filename

An external file name of the form/filename

varid

An identifier (for use with the VARIABLE command within macros) of the form

!name

where ‘name’ is a text string.

For example:

!COUNTER,  !height

comma

The ‘,’ character, which can be used to concatenate Design commands.

For example:

NEW FLANGE SELECT WITH STYP WN, CONNECT

plus minus star slash

These are the + (add), ‑ (subtract), * (multiply) and / (divide) operators, which can be used in arithmetic expressions.

For example:

(1 + 2), (1 ‑ 2), (1 * 2), (1 / 2)

Note that there must be a space before and after each of these operators.